My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.

And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.

Thieves, Heretics, and Whores

I learned to love the feel of good words.

Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters in your book and they all pretty much act and think the same except they have different colored hair.

Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.